Sunday, June 21, 2009
Time for another update on what has been going on in my not-very-eventful life.
This past week I had a slew of outings almost entirely on consecutive days which left me feeling very tired, but more or less happy.
Last Saturday, my sister and I visited Shilei's new (?) home in Yishun together with some other members of the anime club and alumni. After dinner at Ishimura at Northpoint, we went to watch "Crackers?", a fireworks display that was the closing event of the Singapore Arts Festival. I didn't exactly feel at ease with the other members of the party (for reasons which I won't disclose here), but the performance was truly spectacular. The fireworks were dazzlingly beautiful to behold, and although there were many mock-warnings about the noise levels potentially exceeding "recommended levels", anyone who has been to a VK live before wouldn't have found the explosions particularly deafening.
On Sunday, I met up with Vanessa, Derek and Poh Lin, who had just come back from the US (and thankfully was not infected with H1N1). I hadn't seen Poh Lin since we graduated from AJ more than 5 years ago, and to tell the truth, I was actually not very keen on seeing her again, after her no-show the last time we organized a gathering for her sake (she had completely forgotten about the gathering and was watching a movie with her boyfriend while we were waiting for her at the restaurant - I had Research Workshop at 9am the following day but decided to make time for her so you can imagine how fuming mad I was).
But in the end, I was glad that I decided to overcome my misgivings, for I discovered that Poh Lin was still very much the same sweet girl I knew in JC, and that what JWB calls the "country club atmosphere" at Princeton had not corrupted her.
On Monday evening, I went out with MW, her "whatever" and Calvin for dinner and drinks. Well, Calvin only showed up at the bar 45 minutes late, so he didn't have dinner with us but I paid for one of his drinks as promised because he wanted a birthday present, and because I kind of owed him one, haha.
We went to Orgo, the new rooftop bar at the Esplanade co-owned by the apparently famous Japanese mixologist Kitazoe Tomoyuki, and the aerial view it offered of the bay was pretty fantastic. Plus it was actually cool and breezy enough to sit in the open and enjoy the night air. Orgo is supposed to be famous for its cocktails which are made with fresh fruits, so I tried a banana daiquiri. It was a bit pricey at $18, and Calvin was indignant that he was paying so much for less-than-spectacular drinks, but I thought my daiquiri was yummy enough. But the daiquiri was only the second alcoholic drink I have drunk in my life so far (and I'm not kidding), so what do I know.
Anyway, to make make his trip to Orgo more worthwhile, Calvin took home all the wet towel packets we were given, and he stuffed a coaster into my camera bag, which I only discovered when I was on the bus home... =___=;
Then on Wednesday, I met Wan Ching at Kino to buy the books we needed for our MA theses since Kino was offering a 20% discount for its members. After buying everything we needed, the two of us lugged our bags overflowing with books (manga, in my case) to the Royal Copenhagen Tea Lounge for lunch, which was actually tea because we got distracted by the pretty cakes in the display case and sacrificed nutrition for sugar and extra calories...
So after Wednesday, I was really exhausted, and I've decided to avoid going out as much as I can from now till August, because I don't want to catch anything (especially not some porcine-avian-human hybrid flu) which would disrupt my attempts to complete my Gothic paper and prepare for my ISM and conference paper within the next few weeks.
Ok, that's all for now. Tomorrow I'm going to have to draft and write my embarrassingly sketchy ISM proposal and contact my potential supervisor for a preliminary meeting on Thursday. I'll be glad to get that bloody thing out of my system and onto paper (even though it is embarrassingly sketchy) because it has been tormenting me for the past few weeks. And I think Dr Y will allow me to be sketchy at this stage, though I'm certainly not happy I'm not producing something better for him...
kaoru said at 8:36 AM
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